Thursday, Jan 31, 2008

Intro Lecture on SHM.
My lecture notes are available as a word file in WebAssign under Announcements.

Handed out problems sheet on SHM - try problems for Friday.

On Friday I will go over and answer questions of any of the problem sets:
Review of IB Physics 1, AAPT Practice Test, SHM Problem Sheet

AAPT test is on Monday.

Wed Jan 30, 2008

Collect Parent Contact form, Course Syllabus form
Check textbooks for covers

At Library Computer lab:
Students logged into WebAssign and did Intro to WebAssign 2007
Logged into course blogsite
Started WebAssign assignments Hewitt chap 2-4, Hewitt chap 5-8 as review

Go over questions from "Review Problems from IB Physics 1" worksheet
Went over questions 1-7 on AAPT Physics Olympics Practice Test
Mentioned i, j, k notation for vectors
Reviewed difference between distance and displacment
Did problem in average velocity = change in displacement/time interval

HW: Continue working on review problems, attempt AAPT Physics Olympics Practice Test

Tuesday, Jan 29, 2008

Introduction
Student Profile
Hand out Course Syllabus
Course Syllabus completion sheet due Wed
Parent Contact sheet - due Wed
Get textbooks - cover by Wed
Review IB Physics by going over Final Exam using ABCDE cards
Hand out Problem sheet for review of IB Physics 1 - students should try problems
Hand out AAPT Physics Olympics practice exam

Tomorrow I plan to have students go to the Library Computer Lab to Log onto WebAssign, complete the introductory exercise, and try logging onto this blog site.

Welcome

This will hopefully be a daily recap of what we do in class.